A blend of history, analysis and opinion, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy.
Understanding Socialism tackles the taboos and unveils the often hidden histories of socialism, but most importantly it offers a way forward: a socialism built on democracy in the workplace. Socialism is a yearning for something better than capitalism. Books by Dr.Published November 2019, by Democracy at Work Wolff and his partners’ collection of podcasts? Head over here. Wolff’s economics class? Then check out t his amazing collection of his class lectures. The second is the concept of overdetermination as the logic of an analytic project that is consistently non-determinist.
The first is the introduction of class, in its elaborated surplus labor definition, as a new “entry point” of social analysis.
Common to all of Professor Wolff’s work are two central components. This new approach appears in several books co-authored by Resnick and Wolff and numerous articles by them separately and together. While it retains and systematically elaborates the Marxist notion of class as surplus labor, it rejects the economic determinism typical of most schools of economics and usually associated with Marxism as well. Over the last twenty-five years, in collaboration with his colleague, Stephen Resnick, he has developed a new approach to political economy. Professor Wolff enjoys french cuisine and lives in New York City with his wife, Dr. Wolff, is syndicated on over 70 radio stations nationwide and available for broadcast on Free Speech TV. Professor Wolff’s weekly show, Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff was also a regular lecturer at the Brecht Forum in New York City. In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne). He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008.
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